Chester G. Atkins

Chester Greenough Atkins ( born April 14, 1948 in Geneva, Switzerland ) is an American politician and former congressman of the Democrats for Massachusetts.

Career

Atkins attended until 1966, the Concord - Carlisle High School in Concord (Massachusetts ) and until 1970, the Antioch College. On campus in Antioch he could perceive a strong progressive politicization in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1970 he was elected as a Democrat in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts, and is there still to this day the youngest ever elected MP. From 1972 to 1984 he sat in the state Senate. He belonged to the Senate Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Committee on financial matters. From 1977 to 1990 he was chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee.

When James Shannon decided to run for the Senate seat of retiring due to illness, Paul Tsongas, Atkins is applied successfully in 1984 as a Democrat for a seat in the 99th Congress. He took his seat on January 3, 1985, was after several re- elections until January 3, 1993, Massachusetts delegate in the House of Representatives of the United States. In the 1990 election he won narrowly in really safe for the Democrats fifth Congressional District of Massachusetts. Fearing that the seat could fall to the Republicans, the Democrats presented in 1992 Marty Meehan as a Democratic candidate on in this district. Atkins ' last election campaign was overshadowed by allegations against him for check fraud and financial mismanagement. His wife Cory, of which he had several years earlier separately was later in his district deputies in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts.

Atkins founded the firm in 1993 ADS Ventures, Inc., which provides consulting services and lobbying. Currently, Atkins lives in Cambridge.

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